c++ pointer question

If you want a pointer to a function, you'll need to add some parentheses in. Right now, your function prototype returns a pointer to int.

int *handle() is the same as int* handle()

int (*handle)() is a pointer to a function that takes no parameters and returns an int. If you want to assign another function to this pointer, just make sure you have the same function prototype. So if you have a function such as

int foo(), you could do this:

handle = foo;

Actually, polymorphism has very little to do with this situation. What you need to do is specify your "handle()" procedure as a function pointer. I was about to go into the details regarding it, but I just realized that "jamdon_ms" beat me to it. :p Oh well. Serves me right for being slow on the draw.

Here is something to get you started on function pointers

www.function-pointer.org/

I will look into that, thanks. this is my first practacal use of pointers outside of loading a BMP in SDL so I dont know to much about other uses.